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  • Almost everything happened according to the script. Now we are just waiting for another OS fully based on browser technology or WASM OS.

    webOS and Firefox OS was at least 20 years ahead of its time.

    by ksec
  • Gary Bernhardt's Wat lightning talk [1] was my favorite of all time.

    It's only 2 years predates this talk in the title.

    [1]: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

    by devy
  • I remember watching Gary Bernhardt give this talk live at the Canadian Undergraduate Software Engineering Conference (CUSEC) back in 2014. PNaCl had just come out the year prior, and Google was using it to cross-compile, run, and sandbox OpenSSH and RDP clients inside of Chrome and ChromeOS, and the Mozilla/Firefox folks counter-proposed asm.js as a response.

    At the time I just thought it was funny. Now I find it surprising how much of these ideas ended up sticking around.

    by cbhl
  • The problem is Wasm is not improving nearly as fast as predicted here. We don't have DOM manipulation so we will still need JS regardless as glue code, or just eschew HTML and CSS altogether and render everything on a canvas as Flutter and some Rust GUIs do but that's a shame to lose the feature set of the web.
    by satvikpendem
  • Every few years, we invent a better JavaScript. Then we transpile it to JavaScript.
    by oakinnagbe
  • JS became a compilation target (and it really did), and back then in the video it was asm.js (that's been deprecated, hasn't it?), but then WebAssembly came along... Seeing it actually being implemented and running natively, it seems his prediction was accurate. I mainly use TypeScript myself, and now with Electron, web technologies are wrapped into desktop apps, so web syntax has even entered computer programs. People say Electron is heavy and not great, but it's also the fastest way to support Mac, Windows, and Linux all at once. Sometimes insights like that are surprising.

    The 'death' being discussed here means that JavaScript becomes the substrate, a state where you don't use it directly, but it's everywhere. And that has truly come to pass.

    by jdw64
  • Surprised no one mentioned this is the guy who brought us this masterpiece. If you haven’t seen it, drop everything and watch it, best 5 minutes of your day guaranteed.

    https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

    by eranation
  • I love(?) that he absolutely predicted a global disaster between 2020-2025, he just got the wrong type. Which is very JavaScript.
    by DavidPiper

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